Misio

Specialist Education Mentor • Interested in SEND topics/issues • Social Justice • Upcycling • Dog rescuer

[Misio @YourLocalMisio]

@RobD11762710 @anon_opin 🥳

[Misio @YourLocalMisio]

@lborouniversity @lboroalumni A wonderful day. Thank you 👩🏻‍🎓⚛️🧪

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I recently found out that the famous line from Shakespeare's Macbeth is "double double toil and trouble" and not, as I had previously believed, "toilet trouble"

[Nitin Sawhney @thenitinsawhney]

I grew up watching flag-waving little Englanders parading their nationality around Rochester like Dickensian caricatures, puffing their chests out in pride over an imperial history carefully reimagined to paint over barbaric cruelty with Constable landscapes and Churchillian swagger… As if the accident of where they were born had been an achievement…

These folk were everywhere… with their arrogant smiles and entitled condescension. They were the National Front-supporting parents of school friends, avoiding eye contact if I dared visit their house via their sons, asking me transparent questions about my ethnicity and explaining how mixed race marriages never work, in case I propositioned one of their vulnerable teenage daughters…

I was taught to consider myself both lucky to be here and self-evidently inferior by virtue of my heritage.

So when I see those same superior, colluding, patronising smiles on the over-rehearsed faces of attention-seeking rabble-rousers like Farage and Tice, I have to remember…

We can’t change the past but we can make damn sure those who belong in the past don’t destroy our future…

Farage is a disease, a malicious vessel of hate… A gleeful provocateur. Everything he touches becomes a toxic wasteland of hopeless misery. He is a cancer waiting to destroy the same host over and over again.

I said this about him in a Channel 4 News interview back in 2014.

I’m saying it again now.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

Until recently l thought that SPF for suncream was based on your age and that you used kids, 10, 15 , 30 and 50 depending on how old you were.

[Misio @YourLocalMisio]

@AutisticCoach_

[Misio @YourLocalMisio]

@daveatherton What a lovely compassionate attitude for an educator

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

If a Rwanda flight does take off…

Your bills will still be as expensive

Your wait for a GP/hospital bed will still be as long

Your court date will still be as delayed

Your taxes will still be as high

…but we will all be more more morally & financially bankrupt as a nation

[Auticulate™️- AutisticallyBlunt™️ @auticulate]

Autism + ADHD in one brain = internalised chaos (the Autism wants routine and the ADHD wants spontaneity). Add to this external chaos (Hostile environments including people and policies) and you get extreme and debilitating demand avoidance. Then add to this complex post traumatic stress disorder caused by many years of unmet needs, hostile environments and wrong labels = AuDHD with trauma.

AuDHD folks are not traumatised by their neurodivergent differences when they understand themselves, they are traumatised by those who don’t and won’t understand them.

[Misio @YourLocalMisio]

@sen_reform @eleanorjwright Complaints process and escalate to LGO?
Can you judicial review for the lack of provision ? Might be faster

[Misio @YourLocalMisio]

@anxietyaloner Definitely not allowed and manager should know this. Ok to share whether it will be a temporary or longer term absence so colleagues can help cover work, but no details. Awful

[Misio @YourLocalMisio]

@ForrisHilier @MsJoBillington The school we used incorrectly said ‘No diagnosis, no help’ then cited physically disabled children as more in need.

[Dr Jo Billington @MsJoBillington]

“many schools expect an assessment & formal diagnosis to access support – and children…suffer while they wait”

This reflects a widespread & damaging myth. Nothing in law mandates a diagnosis before support can be provided. Schools need to know - & meet - their legal obligations

[Misio @YourLocalMisio]

@eleanorjwright @DudeAdhd They will drag it out then concede last minute to delay spending as much as possible

[Kristian Niemietz @K_Niemietz]

Could there be a better summary of the state of the country?

[Misio @YourLocalMisio]

@StorySorcery No one really bothered to be honest

[Special Needs Jungle @SpcialNdsJungle]

On SNJ Today: The parallels of the never-ending institutional gaslighting of parent carers with the scandal of the subpostmasters is highlighted in our post from SEND campaigner Fiona Castle today https://t.co/LStVHS3UOy

[BCP Alliance for Children & Schools @BCPACS]

Several councillors reporting an email has gone out stating that any @BCPCouncil councillor who basically knows anyone with an EHCP cannot take part in the debate / vote in relation to Safety Valve. This is incredibly problematic

[Autistic Girls Network @AutisticGirls_]

Sadly, we have had to close applications for this service in less than 24 hours because we've had 7 times the number of applications that we have places.

Grant funders, this is the level of unmet need.
National and local government, this is the level of unmet need.

[SEND Action @SEND_Action]

Thank you to the 22,000 people who have signed in just 3 days. This isn’t just about these councillors. It’s about integrity and responsibility in public office. It’s not ok to use your platform to ridicule disabled children and suggest they belong in institutions.